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Oh, they sound great, that's a really good price too.
And fuck me 85Db, how long have you had it, took me about 3 years to understand people in conversation to the same level again, I'm about 15Db up to 4KHz, then ramp up to ~40 by 6K, staying flat to the end.
On the plus side, your cut off point sounds great for chatting with the lads in the pub, but not being able to hear the Mrs whine about it when you get home :P.

Threads merged and cleaned. Please stay on topic.

I'm able to get hdmi output from my laptop into the monitor so I dont think anything with the monitor is wrong. Or maybe it's really fucky and its like kinda broken. lol

Perfect thanks I'lld do this. Yes im gonna move everything I want to keep onto my other HDD's and plug them in after installing windows. Thanks Guys

Ohhh I didn't realize you were keeping that. My bad. Here is the new build.
 
Here is one upgrade path 
PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $172.39 @ Newegg Motherboard ASRock B450M-HDV R4.0 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $64.99 @ Newegg Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory $79.98 @ Amazon Video Card MSI GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB Low Profile Video Card Purchased For $0.00 Case Rosewill Line-M MicroATX Mini Tower Case $40.99 @ Amazon Power Supply Corsair VS 550 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply $64.77 @ Amazon   Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts     Total $423.12   Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-14 01:52 EDT-0400    
And here is another, cheaper, upgrade path
 
  PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 3 3100 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor $100.00 Motherboard ASRock B450M-HDV R4.0 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $64.99 @ Newegg Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory $79.98 @ Amazon Video Card MSI GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB Low Profile Video Card Purchased For $0.00 Case Rosewill Line-M MicroATX Mini Tower Case $40.99 @ Amazon Power Supply Corsair VS 550 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply $64.77 @ Amazon   Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts     Total $350.73   Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-14 01:53 EDT-0400  

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor  ($254.00 @ Shopping Express) 
Motherboard: MSI - B450I GAMING PLUS AC Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard  ($189.00 @ Mwave Australia) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($125.00 @ Umart) 
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($79.00 @ Shopping Express) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($81.00 @ PLE Computers) 
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB GAMING X 4G Video Card  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Case: Cooler Master - Elite 130 Mini ITX Tower Case  ($58.00 @ Austin Computers) 
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM (2015) 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($78.00 @ Shopping Express) 
Total: $864.00
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-03 16:09 AEDT+1100

I don’t really know what you mean by a motherboard that ‘lasts in the future’. Usually CPU companies like AMD and Intel will stop support of older motherboard chipsets after a few generations. AMD’s current AM4 motherboards will work for their latest cpus until 2020. Not sure about Intel. Maybe you can go for AM4 motherboard like B450 or X470, you can upgrade to the promising zen2 cpus.
 
Considering your budget, a Ryzen 5 2600 would work quite well, and its only 65W TDP so if you don’t OC the temps will be decent in a small case
 
At this budget, 2 x4GB DDR4 3000Mhz is perfect.
 
 

Obviously fake. I'm a little surprised you even have to ask.
Read the reviews. That alone should tell you it's fake. Most look doctored by people that can't write English.
Also, if you watch the countdown timer, it just restarts. There's no limit.
 

the game decides, not you, unless theres an option to switch between directx versions (say, GTA V and its DX9/10/11 support)

Yes, should do, it's almost the same as the auto overclocking for the phenom II 1055t models by the looks of it, you won't get much out of it though maybe, IIRC you can actually set the OC to 10% etc, I don't have mine handy ATM to look for you as it's at home in my attic/loft, but pretty sure.
You won't lose anything by trying anyway.

How about trying it out and benchmarking the CPU for us? When I see those options with a overclockable chip I'd just turn them off and overclock manually.

like litteraly anything that fits will work, there is no real risk of it falling out  if you have a window though you might want to get matching scerws atleast  

Just get the cheapest one you can find from a reputable brand.

This
 
 

http://www.play-asia.com/amd-athlon-x4-860k-black-edition-4x-370ghz-boxed/13/7092qb
 

CPU bottlenecking hard  Ideally, you want both to be 100% but that almost never happens. 

Ok once I get some information on that i will post it here. Ill be busy for about 20 mins but expect a reply in about 30 mins. Thanks again

Most likely a bottleneck from the CPU. Sadly, there aren't any upgrades to that platform. 

Ok so I played a game of Overwatch, steady fps and did not shut down at 4.1 GHZ. 
 
I think I might just leave it to be honest Im pretty happy with the performance.
 
But lets say I wanted to push it to 4.2 from 4.1GHZ how much more volts/watts would I need to add do you think?
 
Thanks again
 

Yup... until you land in the BIOS.

You can start pressing delete as soon as the screen goes black, that way you will (almost with 100% certainty) end up in the BIOS.
 
Although some motherboards have an option to change the POST time (image of the motherboard's brand at start up).

No problem!
 
Any time

Like I told you in my post above, start at 1.4V  at 4.1GHz, test it using Rog Real Bench for example. If it does not crash follow the methodology I mentioned above.
 
If the voltage is too low the app will probably crash, or the whole pc will crash (which is more likely).

not sure try to read this. http://lifehacker.com/a-beginners-introduction-to-overclocking-your-intel-pr-5580998

test it longer